Posted by RMinVa on December 02, 2014 at 07:19:21 from (184.21.37.167):
In Reply to: Heating fuel options. posted by IaGary on December 02, 2014 at 05:28:20:
I heat with wood. Always have. I remember when folks started switching from oil to lp. That was when lp was much lower in price. Price of lp in this area in Sept. was $2.49-$3.25. I got some for $2.29 because I own my tank. I only use lp if the power goes off and just long enough for me to get the generator hook to the tractor and running running. So 110 gal. will last me years.
Natural gas lines in many places but they were sized from years past. So the home owner may have a line in their front yard supplying a hospital or plant but can't get use of it for there home. Some towns have ng. I get heating oil on my account for my Mom. This past summer I got the tank filled and was $3.49, so you can look at the figures and see why folks stick with oil.
We have 3 pipe lines proposed to come north and south of me. They will supply NG for power plants and such. One closest to me is being fought to stop it in Nelson co. Va. Buckingham co. is for it. Folks can fight all they want but those pipe lines will be installed. We have city buses on NG and truck fleets changing to it plus all the growth east of us. New power plants will get NG. BTW we have one of the few clean burning coal power plants in the nation at Clover Va. It came online in the late 90's. Sure is a sight to see with no black smoke out the stack. Just see a vapor or steam cloud at times.
Lots of folks here use just a heat pump with oil back up. Electric is still cheap enough to go that route with the lp and oil price being what it is in this area.
Coal was king for a long time and still had strong support till Duke power put off cleaning up coal ash just over in NC. Leak came in the bottom of a ash pond and it made it's way to the Dan river. Down stream near Clarksville Va. we pump millions of gallons of water to the east coast for drinking water. The coal ash spill will cost Duke millions if not billions.
And while I'm at it we have a very large deposit of uranium under ground about 16 miles sw. of me. Plans are to mine it but hasn't gotten approval. This deal with Duke power may wind up sealing the fate of the uranium mine too. Sloppy work can sure sour the public preception. And we sure don't want radio active water from here down in to NC and to the east coast out of that mine. Sorry for getting off topic but it's still energy.
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